What No One Seems To Be Saying About The Search For A Vaccine

[fmdog44]

We read the vaccine for polio took years and other vaccines took years and months but that was then and this is now. The science/technology now cannot be compared to that of years ago so there is no point in comparing them.

 

[Ruthanne]

So what is the point here?

 

[asp3]

So what is the point here?

@fmdog44 will have to let me know if I'm right, but I think he's saying that we can't consider the time it took to make other vaccines because we have knowledge and technology that wasn't available when the vaccines for Polio and other diseases so we might be able to do it more quickly than we were able to do before.

 

[fmdog44]

@fmdog44 will have to let me know if I'm right, but I think he's saying that we can't consider the time it took to make other vaccines because we have knowledge and technology that wasn't available when the vaccines for Polio and other diseases so we might be able to do it more quickly than we were able to do before.

yup!

 

[StarSong]

More quickly than the ten years it took to develop a safe, effective polio vaccine? Sure hope you're right.

 

[gennie]

Science has advanced greatly in recent years but the human body and how it responds to stimuli has not and that is what must be tested to prove a vaccine.

 

[win231]

It's not a matter of "science advancing." It's the fact that medicine has become a business.

 

[asp3]

It's not a matter of "science advancing." It's the fact that medicine has become a business.

I wouldn't disagree that the business of medicine is pushing the vaccine development to some degree, but I think the knowledge and technology that we've discovered and developed since the Polio vaccine is leaps and bounds ahead of business in giving us the ability to develop a vaccine more quickly.

 

[Autumn]

Another difference is the amount of money being poured into this. Normally, getting funding for medical research is difficult and can take a long time. But because of the severity of this situation, both the government and private foundations are pouring every available cent into the vaccine research. This is making ahuge difference.

 

[911]

It would seem to me that the scientists do have a bit of a jump on this one seeing as how COVID viruses have been around for awhile and I would think that there may be some knowledge as to how to restrain some of these viruses. Maybe it's just a starting point, but still......

 

[asp3]

Another thing to consider when comparing the vaccine development is we didn't have the DNA knowledge, sequencing and tools that we have now when they were developing the Polio vaccine. That is a huge difference.

 

[StarSong]

Another thing to consider when comparing the vaccine development is we didn't have the DNA knowledge, sequencing and tools that we have now when they were developing the Polio vaccine. That is a huge difference.

This is all speculative because there is no approved vaccine. Most people are saying IF and WHEN there's a vaccine, we want to see data. Efficacy, safety and testing information needs to be published and scrutinized. I see nothing wrong with that.

 

[Irwin]

I think there will be an effective treatment before we get a vaccine.

 

[fmdog44]

Computer analysis of all data greatly increases test results and data analysis that were non existent in the polio vaccine days. The corona virus is much more stable than influenza virus having multiple RNAs constantly rearranging themselves and therefore is easier to solve.